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China Reunified: Sui, Tang, and Song Dynasties
589-1279 CE
Reunification
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With the fall of the __________ Dynasty in ______ CE, China fell into a period of ______________.
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Not as traumatic (or ________________) as the fall of ____________ for _______________ Europe
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___________________ and disorder provided fertile ground for __________________, which
gained _______________ _______________ of ________________
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Between _________ – __________ CE, China __________________ under the ________ Dynasty.
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Utilized _________________ to __________________ _______________
The Sui Dynasty
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Focus on _________________ _________________: rebuilding the Great Wall to protect from nomadic
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Building the _________ __________ long ____________ ____________ – linked Yellow and Yangzi rivers
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Created one huge ________________ ___________ in North and South China (which grew
________________-resistant ______________ rice which had diffused from modern Vietnam)
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_________________ ___________________ ____________ _______________ & Confucian bureaucracy
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Utilized ______________ ____________ to forcibly extract _____________ from _______________
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Emperor ________________________ by his own ministers in 618. Looked like China would spiral into
chaos again, but wait….
Tang Dynasty (618-906CE)
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Military man restored order and became new emperor, claiming the ________________ of ____________
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China became ________________ than ever before:
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Rulers extend China’s______________ to parts of Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Tibet, etc.
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Like the Han Dynasty, the Tang _______________ many of its neighbors into a Tribute System, in
which other rulers ______________________ the __________________ of China in exchange for a formal
relationship & _______________
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_____________ ____________ Trade was ___________________
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Tang ________________ was very _____________ due to advanced _________________ (roads,
waterways, canals) and _____________.
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_______________ ________________: continued to stimulate trade
___________ industry made China exceptionally ________________
Culture and Politics in Tang China
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Tang rulers were _______________ _____________- Golden Age of China
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The Tang exerted a strong _____________ and religious influence over ____________ and ____________
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Tang monarchs expanded and _________________ the __________________ _______________________
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Revived _______________ - ______________ elite
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Bureaucracy reached from ________________ ________________ down to _______________level.
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Bureaucracy was divided into _____ _________________ - war, justice, public works, etc.
State and Religion During the Tang
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Confucian exam system was back, but ___________________’s hold was strong in the _________ Period
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Many Tang rulers had strong ______________ ______________ __________ and were devout Buddhists
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_____________________ (Buddha = a god & bodhisattvas = important); ___________
(Zen) variant of Buddhism stressed ____________________ and appreciation of natural
beauty. Mahayana & Zen Buddhism spread into _______________ & Korea, as well.
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Some early Tang Emperors ________________ Buddhism (_______________ ______ r. 690-705 CE)
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________________ of Buddhism aroused the ___________ of Confucian and Daoist _____________.
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Confucian leaders stressed the ______________ ____________ of ________ __________ Buddhist
monasteries, and losing out on ____________ because they couldn’t _____________
_________________ who worked on ____________________ ________________.
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Attacked the religion as ______________ & ______________
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_______ CE – Emperor began persecution of Buddhists; Destroyed and ______________
_____________________, shrines, and forced monks and nuns to return to ______________ lives.
Tang Decline
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____________________ _______________ control after attacks on Buddhism.
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________ ___________________ rebellion & legend of Concubine Yang Guifei
Song Dynasty (960 – 1279 CE)
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In __________ a new military commander ________________ _______________
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Military focus on subduing ______________ northern nomadic pastoralists beyond the Great Wall
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_________________ _______________ ___________ with the “Song ___________________ Revolution.”
Song Economy and Society
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_____________________ and _____________________ __________________
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Steady _____________________ growth
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Commercial Revolution (____________money, _______________, and ________________)
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Largest cities on earth at the time (populations of _____________________ over 1 million)
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Port of ______________ (Guangzhou) became the world’s _______________ ____________ center
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Tried to ______________ ______ landed estates of the old _____________________ and distribute
land more ___________________ among the peasantry (_____________________)
Busy “rainbow” bridge in the
Song capital of Hangzhou
The world’s first paper money!
Song Technology and Innovation
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“_____________” =
credit
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___________ (600
years before
Europe!)
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Religion During the Song Dyansty
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Confucianism ___________________: Neo-Confucianism
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Sought to ________________ the ___________________ of Chinese thought systems over
________________ ones (__________________)
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________ - _____________________ = stated the superiority of Chinese thinking but really
___________________ ___________________ ideas (like about the ______________) and
________________ ideas into Confucianism
Song Art and Literature
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A _________-__________________ man was expected to excel in ___________ fields. After a day of work
at the Ministry of Public Works, an accomplished official was expected to spend his evenings
composing ______________ and ______________
Poems were written in beautiful
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________ celebrated the beauty of the ________________ world
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________________ (______ ______ & _______ ______) and ______________________ ________________
calligraphy, an art in its own right
The high tower is a hundred feet tall,
From here one's hand could pluck the stars.
I do not dare to speak in a loud voice,
I fear to disturb the people in heaven. ~Li Bo
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Landscapes were painted on ______________ that could be read as the viewer unfolded them
The Ladies
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__________ Dynasty _____________________ ____________ the status of women during that Dynasty
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Nomadic pastoralist _____________________ also allowed women more __________________
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Neo-Confucianism was used to _______________ ______________________ of women. Reinforced
virginity for unmarried women, fidelity for wives, and ________________ for widows.
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_________, however, could have pre-marital sex and take ___________________ without scandal.
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_________-____________________ attacked Buddhists for _________________ ______________________
independence for women in monasteries as ______________
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Women _______________ from ___________________
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Chinese subjugation of women was most obvious in
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Tiny bound-foot shoes – the
ideal size was 3 inches!